{"id":765,"date":"2018-04-12T14:35:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T21:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/?p=765"},"modified":"2021-05-16T01:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T08:44:45","slug":"the-peopleway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/the-peopleway.html","title":{"rendered":"The People Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BikeTrain?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BikeTrain<\/a> has started <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMReynoso34?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CMReynoso34<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TransAlt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TransAlt<\/a> New option to address upcoming L train shutdown <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4HGemDK0Px\">pic.twitter.com\/4HGemDK0Px<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Madina Toure (@madinatoure) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madinatoure\/status\/984411060408143873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A lot of #BikeNYC commuters, when you ask, will tell you that they first started cycling during large-scale disruptions to the city\u2019s subway system \u2013 the transit strikes of 1980 and 2005, the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, and in the days after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not often cities get advance notice of such disruptions. Next year when the MTA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/lifestyle\/new-york\/l-train-shutdown-nyc-mta-plan-alternative-service\">shuts down the L-train for 15 months<\/a> to repair damage inflicted by Hurricane Sandy, Brooklyn residents will lose a critical transit link to Lower Manhattan. New York City knows this is coming, and needs to do better than its currently woefully inadequate plans to make those 15 months bearable for transit riders \u2013 and for everyone else who lives or works along the affected sections of the route. So kudos to Transportation Alternatives for getting out in front of the #LTrain shutdown with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transalt.org\/getinvolved\/neighborhood\/manhattan\/14th\">PeopleWay<\/a> campaign. \u00a0Part of the campaign to pressure the city to improve its response to the shutdown includes running weekly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pix11.com\/2018\/04\/12\/bike-train-rally-kicks-off-to-launch-new-alternative-ahead-of-l-train-shutdown\/\">biketrains<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 group bike commutes meant to be inviting for newer riders. I (Kimberly) might be biased &#8212; I co-founded\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycbiketrain.org\/faq-for-riders\/\">NYCBiketrain<\/a>, from which TA&#8217;s #Biketrain effort draws some inspiration &#8211; but they are a great way to invite new folks who think biking might work for them, but could use a little support to get started.<\/p>\n<p>Here in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/washington-supreme-court-rules-that-people-on-bikes-are-pedestrians-for-insurance-purposes.html\">Seattle, transportation advocates<\/a> are looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theurbanist.org\/2018\/03\/02\/one-center-city-multimodal-improvements-way\/\">our city\u2019s plans<\/a>\u00a0 for when light rail nudges our buses out of the downtown transit tunnel and onto surface streets. And we are seeing signs of the same woefully inadequate response from city and regional agencies. The bus shift to the surface is just one reason we can\u2019t wait for the #BasicBikeNetwork \u2013 are you listening, Seattle DOT, Metro, SoundTransit, Mayor Durkan? We need to prioritize moving people over moving cars, today and tomorrow. It doesn\u2019t take a physicist or a transportation engineer to see that establishing dedicated space for people busing and biking that cars cannot easily impinge on is the most efficient way to do that. \u00a0It\u2019s also the most fair. PeopleWay Seattle, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The #BikeTrain has started @CMReynoso34 @TransAlt New option to address upcoming L train shutdown pic.twitter.com\/4HGemDK0Px \u2014 Madina Toure (@madinatoure) April 12, 2018 A lot of #BikeNYC commuters, when you ask, will tell you that they first started cycling during large-scale disruptions to the city\u2019s subway system \u2013 the transit strikes of 1980 and 2005, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle-advocates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}